Government begins to mobilize lobby force for Polish Iraq contracts

The director of the National Security Agency (BBN) Marek Siwiec said on Sunday that the government is considering sending former treasury minister Sławomir Cytrycki to Washington to lobby on behalf of Polish companies interested in investing in Iraq. He also added that Cytrycki was among people currently working with professor Belka, who will become the head of the International Consulting Team in Iraq. According to Siwiec, Cytrycki's precise scope of authority and tasks have not yet been decided. "We shall have to wait and see what his real range of his activities will be, as to be honest, we should have a business representative to lobby American con struction company Bechtel, which was the first to receive a major Iraqi contract," explained Siwiec. (www.onet.pl) M.M.